ANOTHER large and eager crowd attended the Mark O’Hanlon Memorial Racing Quiz last weekend and the competition to impress was stiff. In the end, victory went to the team containing The Irish Field’s Mark Boylan, along with Eoin Fives, Declan Foy and Charles Weld. They only got nine incorrect answers. How will you do? The answers are at the bottom.

Eoin Fives, Mark Boylan, Declan Foy and Charles Weld. Mark O’Hanlon’s sister made the presentation.

ROUND ONE

1. Which town is famous for its racecourse and its salts?

2. Which European country’s Derby in 2025 was won by a lady amateur rider?

3. Alphabetically, which racetrack comes first in Ireland?

4. Which owner has won the King George at Goodwood on the flat and the King George at Kempton over jumps?

5. Name the last horse to complete the Irish and English Grand National double?

6. Lambourn beat Middleham in which sporting fixture near London last summer?

7. The first winner of the academy hurdle series was a three-year-old named after a holiday resort in which country?

8. The trainer of which horse admitted he’d been to Equine Specsavers last summer?

9. Tobey Maguire rode which famous racehorse?

10. Name the Irish Group 1-winning trainer who shares his surname with Donegal’s football team manager?

ROUND TWO

1. Which jockey rode a big chase winner in December for his babysitter?

2. Lossiemouth ran in which two races at the 2025 Cheltenham Festival meeting?

3. Name the classic winner who won a maiden hurdle in Listowel last May?

4. Which Group 1 winner needed an Uber last year?

5. Which Irish trainer who has won the Grade 1 Belmont Oaks has the first names James Anthony?

6. Golden Cygnet was ridden by which jockey to win the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle at Cheltenham?

7. Which Irish trainer bred last year’s Gordon Stakes winner?

8. Name the last horse to win the 2000 Guineas and the Arc?

9. Which Carlow jockey rode the Irish Cesarewitch winner last September?

10. Paul Nicholls’ top chaser Hitman is notionally named after which boxer?

ROUND THREE

1. Which regally-named brothers combined to win a Grade 2 chase at Punchestown this season?

2. Name the two 2025 classic winners named after a painter from the country in which they won the classic?

3. Name the Carlow-based stallion who sired a European champion 2yo and a Queen Mother Champion Chase winner, both bred in Kilkenny?

4. Hit Show beat Mixto in which race last April?

5. Which Cheltenham Festival Grade 1-winning jockey of 2025 played rugby for Scarlets?

6. Which top Hong Kong trainer rode the winner of the Irish Champion Stakes?

7. Shergar’s prep race before his Epsom Derby victory was at which track?

8. Redwood Queen unseated her jockey at which track last year?

9. Who rode Edward O’Grady’s Cheltenham bumper winners?

10. Name Aidan O’Brien’s two Arc winners?

ROUND FOUR

Name the horses

1. By Dubawi ex Forest Storm

2. By Shamexpress ex Missy Moo

3. By Kodi Bear ex Kassandra

4. By Golden Horn ex Deuce Again

5. The oldest 2yo race in Britain is unsurprisingly run at Newmarket but which race is it?

6. Edward O’Grady trained an Irish Champion Hurdle winner named after an Australian outlaw, but which rock star played the outlaw in a movie named after him?

7. Name the Irish-trained sprinter who won the 2010 Nunthorpe Stakes at 100/1?

8. A Dream To Share was allocated what flat handicap mark last September?

9. Which trainer had the first and second in last October’s Munster National?

10. Frankel beat which horse on both his first and last starts?

ROUND FIVE

Multiple choice

1. Ron Turcotte, who died last year, won the Triple Crown on which horse?

2. Australia’s famous 2yo race, the Golden Slipper and the Hong Kong Derby are run within 24 hours of each other in late March and last year both winners were by which sire?

3. Which jockey was told to “ride it like a girl” last April?

4. Name the York Group 3 winner from last season who shares the same name as a previous Dewhurst-winning Coolmore stallion?

5. In 2023 at Ripon, the filly Doom accomplished what? She was:

6. Last year’s Epsom Derby favourite was named after a:

7. Who said this last year? “I was afraid we’d be tailed off and make a holy show of ourselves.”

8. The winner of last year’s Hong Kong Champion Mile shares his name with a large number of pubs in England. Which one?

9. Who was the champion jockey on the flat in France last year?

10. Which racecourse was closed during World War II in 1940 and is now home to an airport?

Question 4

ROUND SIX

1. In which country is the Velka Pardubice run and name the first Irish-trained winner of it?

2. Which two Irish-based jockeys have won the Irish 2000 Guineas this decade?

3. Who am I? I was a champion apprentice, won a classic and rode 200 winners one year, but didn’t win the jockeys’ championship. I’m now on TV, my father was a professional footballer and my golfing son played in the US Open.

4. Vincent O’Brien and his son David both trained the winner of the Irish Champion Stakes, but which other father and son have achieved the same feat?

5. Which trainer rode the sire of his first Breeders’ Cup winner to win the Middle Park Stakes?

6. Jamie Melham was the second female rider to win the Melbourne Cup, but who was the first?

7. Name the only flat horse trained in Europe that has won more than 10 Group 1 races?

8. Which champion had his first ride on Harvey Specter for Dick Donohoe at Gowran?

9. Top-class Asian sprinter Self Improvement is trained by someone who shares his name with a ‘60s band whose hits included ‘Pretty Flamingo’, ‘Do Wah Diddy Diddy’ and ‘The Mighty Quinn’. Name him?

10. Which mare, conceived in Leighlinbridge, has bred two Middle Park winners this decade?

ROUND SEVEN

1. Which horse won the Long Distance Cup on British Champions Day ridden by his trainer?

2. I once trained a Cheltenham Gold Cup winner and a ‘hairy’ Cheltenham bumper winner. I bred a champion trainer, a champion amateur, a classic winner and the two winning-most two-year-olds in European history. Who am I?

3. Which Irish trainer won a Group 1 at last summer’s Royal Ascot meeting?

4. Which stallion sired the winners of the King George VI Chase and the Desert Orchid Chase at the recent Kempton Christmas meeting?

5. Name the two horses who were second at Leopardstown during the 2024 Irish Champions Weekend, both of whom went on to win Group 1 races at the 2025 edition?

6. Which UK-based jockey rode a winner for Willie Mullins at last year’s Cheltenham Festival?

7. The oldest existing golf course in the world is situated in the middle of a racetrack. Five miles from its country’s capital city, it has hosted the British Open six times. Name the racetrack?

8. Name the only Irish-born jockey to win the King George and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes at Ascot in the last 10 years?

9. Emulous won the 2011 Group 1 Matron Stakes for D.K. Weld, but name her two Group 1-winning progeny in 2024 and 2025?

10. Aidan O’Brien has won the last three English St Legers with Continuous, Jan Brueghel and Scandinavia. Name their winning jockeys?

ROUND EIGHT

1. The 2025 Prix Jacques le Marois winner painted which classic winner who ran in the same colours and narrowly defeated a filly in the 1000 Guineas that once ran in the same colours?

2. The signature tune by The Killers is also the name of which multiple Grade 1 winner in Australia?

3. Which trainer has trained the most winners of the Queen Mother Champion Chase this century?

4. Which Lions Tour player saddled a runner in the Preakness Stakes last year?

5. Name Aidan O’Brien’s last four Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf winners?

6. Who allegedly sat there “like a big sissy” in 2025?

7. Which shire won the biggest prize for two-year-olds in Europe last year?

8. Which UK trainer won the Moonee Valley Gold Cup last October?

9. Which short-priced runner at the upcoming Cheltenham Festival has won £8,704 prize money to date?

10. Who was champion flat apprentice in Ireland last season?

ROUND NINE

1. Which gymnast signalled the ‘riders mount’ order at last year’s Kentucky Derby?

2. Name the 2025 dual Group 1 winner named after someone who works out of Killybegs?

3. Which 1000 Guineas winner shares its name with the smallest nation qualified for this year’s World Cup?

4. The Goffs Thyestes Chase is run over what distance?

5. Brave Inca won the Irish Champion Hurdle twice ridden by which two jockeys?

6. Which top jockey runs a game-bird shoot in Somerset?

7. Name the last Irish-bred horse to become Leading Sire in North America?

8. How many stallions are on the Irish National Stud roster?

9. The father of the breeder of the 2025 Gimcrack winner won two All-Ireland medals for which county?

10. Who sired the most 2yo winners last year, Mehmas or Starman?

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Answers Rd 1: 1. Epsom 2, Germany 3. Ballinrobe 4. Harry Redknapp 5. I Am Maximus 6. Epsom Derby 7. Portugal 8. Constitution Hill 9. Seabiscuit, 10. Ado McGuinness

Answers Rd 2: 1. Sean Bowen 2. Mares Hurdle. Coral Cup 3. Sonnyboyliston 4. Asfoora 5. Fozzy Stack 6. Niall Madden 7. Jim Bolger 8. Sea The Stars 9. Niall McCullagh 10. Ricky Hatton

Answers Rd 3: 1. Daniel, Connor King 2. Henri Matisse, Camille Pisarro 3. Arakan 4. Dubai World Cup 5. Lorcan Williams 6. Tony Cruz 7. Chester 8. Wexford 9. Charlie Swan, Jamie Spencer. 10. Dylan Thomas, Found

Answers Rd 4: 1. Night Of Thunder 2. Ka Ying Rising 3. Leovanni 4. Golden Ace 5. July Stakes 6. Mick Jagger 7. Sole Power 8.103 9. Eric McNamara 10. Nathaniel

Answers Rd 5: 1. Secretariat 2. Snitzel 3. Harry Cobden 4. Scenic 5. Shortest priced beaten favourite 6. Painter 7. Willie Mullins 8. Red Lion 9. Cristian Demuro 10. Gatwick

Answers Rd 6: 1 Czech Republic, Stumptown 2. Rory Clear, Colin Keane 3. Jason Weaver 4. John Dunlop, Ed Dunlop 5. Donnacha O’Brien 6. Michelle Payne 7. Goldikova 8. Dylan Browne McMonagle 9. Manfred Mann 10. Sagely

Answers Rd 7: 1. Royal Diamond 2. Joe Crowley 3. Joe Murphy 4. Ask 5. Fallen Angel, Delacroix 6. Jonjo O’Neill jnr 7. Musselburgh 8. PJ McDonald 9. Bluestocking, Qirat 10. Ryan Moore, Sean Levey, Tom Marquand

Answers Rd 8: 1. Las Meninas 2. Mister Brightside 3. Paul Nicholls 4. Jamie Osborne 5. Victoria Road, Unquestionable, Henri Matisse, Gstaad 6. Zac Purton 7. Dorset 8. Brian Ellison 9. El Cairos 10. Wayne Hassett

Answers Rd 9: 1. Simone Biles 2. Trawlerman 3. Cape Verdi 4. 3m 1f 5. Tony McCoy, Ruby Walsh 6. Harry Cobden 7. El Prado 8. Five 9. Meath 10. Mehmas